Buy mags now?

[CLT65]

My biggest regret was not buying all the $20 4 packs of East German Bakelite ak74 mags I could afford....at the time, there was only one or two 5.45 guns on the market so they were cheap....

I remember those. I bought a couple back in the day, before I bought a 5.45.

I actually bought my first 5.45mm round way back in the '80s, many, many years before I bought the rifle. I was young and starting out in guns and such, and was fascinated with collecting ammo. I would dig through all the miscellaneous cans and bins of loose ammo at every gun show to pick out cool specimens. One gun shop guy started saving interesting stuff for me. One day he pulls out a "rarest of the rare, impossible to find" modern military round, the mythical 5.45mm AK74 round. He claimed that it was smuggled out of Afghanistan. Like a young fool I gave him the $10 he wanted for it.

 

[Ura-Ki]

I did buy mags for a short while, when tbey were still super cheap, same with ammo, not that i didnt have a gun for those flavors, mostly because I was in between, and knew i would get more some day! The ammo shortage caugjt me a little flat, but i was able to stock up with out getting dry raped on the prices! Never again, now i buy it when I see it for a good deal!

 

[gunnut38]

Yes, Been there done that.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Would you buy magazines for a gun you don't own, but want to?

Just curious what others thoughts are.

How about buying ammo for a gun you don't own yet?

A humble reloading setup with primers, powder and lead will allow you to load all cartridges.. just buy dies and a mold when needed.

 

[Unka-Boo]

I guess to answer the OP's question.

YES.....the correct answer is always YES.


I'm a cheap SOB, so always on the hunt for a sale....for the past 6 months or so, NW Armory has had cases of Pmags for $10 ea...I stop by once a month and buy 2 just because. I probably have a lifetime supply already, but having lived through one mag ban, I just keep buying. We are in the middle of one of those "good ol' days" when it comes to AR parts and mags in general, that can change in a blink. Get it while the gettins good.

 

[xlsbob]

I see a good deal on magazines for something I know I'll eventually own of course I'll buy. If it's stupid cheap then I buy just in case.

 

[EPS]

I did it for guns I knew I would get one day.
I had three mags for the S&W shield .
Before I had the gun .
Same for the Ruger 10/22 I had a few 25 round mags before I got the gun .
Because they were on sale and I knew I was going to get one

 

[leadcounsel]

To answer the OP, yes. And right now I have some mags to a gun I don't yet own. I've bought ammo for guns I didn't yet own, as well. If the liberal leftist socialists want to ban it, you'd better be buying it if you want to have it. They've been successful and otherwise come close to full bans in the past.

I lived thru the '94-04 AWB, and various state bans and restrictions. I've lived "without" guns for periods too. I've lived thru the Obama gun spikes x 3, when we saw total outtages of mags/ammo/parts. Reloaders also suffered with empty shelves. Import bans. It sucked. And some guns just soar in price later like the PSL or Saigas, or C&R guns, etc.

If you like guns, you should buy whatever guns or parts you like when you see them deeply discounted in price. Right now is the "golden years" for platforms like most modern handguns and long guns, like ARs. If you aren't adding these to your collection in duplicates and parts and accessories, I think you'll regret it in a decade or two.

Liberty and gun ownership has been under attack for a century, and getting closer to lines-drawn every decade. Keep in mind, we gun owners barely won Heller or McDonald. 1 vote. We barely had the AWB sunset, only because Bush was elected and only by 700 votes, which was less than 1% of the total and only by a handful of EC votes. About 1/2 of Americans (by population) live behind enemy lines in anti-gun states where gun ownership is difficult. We nearly had a totally anti-gun POTUS Hillary Clinton who promised gun confiscation ala Australia like. She promised to stack the SCOTUS and reverse Heller.... We gun owners have won close and important battles, but it's not over.

Ironically, I buy guns because of liberals constant threat against gun rights... and I've learned from both supply/demand and laws of economics, and firearms laws that if you don't buy it now you may not be able to. And quality guns kept in good condition will hold or increase in value.

 

[scarlo]

Yes & yes...

Some of the ammo I bought was to shoot in the firearms that friends own. I prefer to bring my own. Other ammo, I have laying around is from a closeout deal and it was too good to pass up. I bring a little with me to the range should someone show up with that caliber. I don't own a Glock, but have Glock mags and my friends have Glocks...at first they could not believe how fast I got an empty mag loaded and the gun running. They eventually learned that I showed up with my own loaded mags....

If you know exactly what you are buying, the price is right, and have the space, why not...

 

[CLT65]

I did run across a half dozen boxes of premium Winchester 270 WSM on closeout at Walmart a while back, for $5 per box...

 

[Nick Burkhardt]

Yes. Everytime Kate Brown opens her mouth about "gun violence" I buy more magazines.

 

[DedPyro]

If you find a deal, buy twice as many as you need. Magazines are consumables and when states ban them, that's all you have. I bought $3 G3 mags before I got my PTR. It motivated me to search more frequently for a deal and when I found one, I pounced! Plus if you find a good sale, you can likely sell them for the same price just as easily if you don't ever buy the gun. Hell $5 bakelites are like $40 now. Same thing with Circle 10s. Kills me that I passed up some smokin' deals in the past.

In the end: Opportunities are now. You aren't guaranteed them later.

 

[808hondacrguy]

Buying random mags or ammo for good deals gives me an excuse to buy a new gun to use them.

 

[Member 52301]

Would you buy magazines for a gun you don't own, but want to?

Just curious what others thoughts are.

How about buying ammo for a gun you don't own yet?

No, I would not but I do know some people who do this online and offline - face to face.

With that said, my MT husband and I had a lot of FULL in store credit ($$$) at one of our TOP favorite gun stores and we had a 22wmr rifle on order which had not come in but it was 'special ordered'.

We used our full in store credit money instead of taking the money off the top of a sale of many of our firearms (Commission price.). We did not want the cash and we used the money for some other guns, gun related products, reloading stock, some RF ammo, a knife, some books, fishing gear, etc.

I got a BUNCH of 22wmr ammunition in a FEW brands at their store while I was there with my husband and some other stock (Reloading powder for him and a gun book.) on one trip. That now former rifle had not come in to the store yet but it was coming in. So I got the 22wmr ammunition ahead of time and part of that credit paid for the RIFLE, the ammo and a whole bunch more as the months went on in selling. This was BEFORE the CT school murders by a few months. I did not think it was strange to use the credit money for ammunition (22wmr) for a rifle that was coming in and since I was up there. Close to Flathead Lake - 55 miles or so - one way trip from our home.

Later on, when all H broke loose with the fake/real 'shortages' - I was glad that I had what I had on hand for 22wmr ammo. Why? Because you could not find RF ammo (ALL kinds of RF!) in 22wmr for a LONG time 'around here' and if you could find it many dealers wanted TRIPLE or more for one box for what I paid for one box.

Side note: We did not run short in 22lr ammunition because we always had that on hand - in stock here at home. I and/or we replaced what we shot in RF ammo. PLUS I used to plan ahead for my 22lr ammo stock due to MY now FORMER high volume shooting on an annual basis. Especially when I mainly went to shooting RF the most and, later on, shooting RF firearms only.

For a time frame, I almost wanted to go to 22wmr only for a rifle since I FELL IN LOVE (Grin.) with the 22wmr CALIBER. I sold that heavier rifle when my arthritis got worse. I sold a matching rifle in 22lr too.

Typos and added more!

Cate

 

[SUPER X]

Would you buy magazines for a gun you don't own, but want to?

Just curious what others thoughts are.

How about buying ammo for a gun you don't own yet?

I've bought stuff for guns I planned to own but did not at the time, Sometimes the good mags are not avalible later down the road or very expensive.

 

[Member 52301]

I admit it, I'm a brass hoe!!!!

You must be my MT husband's long lost brother! Grin.

Even though he has consolidated ALL of his firearm calibers and he may (?) still consolidate some more... he still collects brass at the range.

He picks up brass for his friends even if he does not own that caliber. He does not do it ALL of the time NOW but he does on and off.

He ALWAYS saves his own brass.

He cleaned up the brass that he was no longer using in firearm calibers that he sold and gave it to a few close friends who used those calibers.

He could have sold it but he did not.

Anything that went with a caliber that he totally got out of (100%) got gifted or sold depending on what it was. Dies and other items.

I did the same thing with MY stuff but I did not and do not reload. Some holsters, holster western rigs with the belt, a few rifle cases, etc.

He did gift quite a bit to close friends.

He gifted some holsters to close friends and he gave some to a charity here too.

Most of the time, any holsters got sold WITH a gun that he or I sold in the past. PACKAGE deal sale.

Cate

 

[Member 52301]

When my MT husband sold his one .223 semi automatic rifle, his last semi automatic rifle in ANY caliber, he had some spare magazines for it.
We sold those extra magazines in another sale and they were in two brands if my memory serves me right.

The MT man who bought them mainly shot .223 caliber rifles and so did his son. I think that he concentrated on that rifle caliber the most. A lot of people do and it IS a popular round. That man only owned one lever action rifle (30-30) and it was like one of my MT husband's rifles.

Cate

 

[Member 52301]

I bought Glock mags before I bought my Ruger PC9 so I guess that's a yes. Now I have a ton of AR mags, 10/22 mags, and Glock 9mm mags. As a result of my mag purchases and existing firearms in the same calibers, my shopping is actually the opposite. I typically limit my new gun searches to ones that I already have ammo and mags for. Diversity can be good, but consolidation makes it easier to stock up on ammo and mags for the future.

You asked for thoughts on the subject so you have no one else but yourself to blame for my ramblings!

We like consolidation here too. Especially in our senior years!

It was much easier for my MT husband to plan, buy and stock up for his reloading supplies and ALL gun related products prior to his retirement and during his retirement now.

I planned ahead for his Christmas gift several years ago and ordered extra Glock brand, standard capacity magazines for his Glock pistol too.

Better safe than sorry, he was keeping that pistol, and he wanted a few extra ones anyway. I was concerned that they might not be in the store when HE wanted them.

Cate

 

[Member 52301]

A humble reloading setup with primers, powder and lead will allow you to load all cartridges.. just buy dies and a mold when needed.

That is what my MT husband always said and still says depending on the person. He 'casts' too.

He had two reloading set ups. He sold one of them years ago. He kept his plain, simple, heavy, FAVORITE RCBS gear and two other reloading things in another brand.

An older single man-older than me, who lives in CO, sold and gifted a bunch of reloading supplies and GEAR. (He has one or two sons.) He sold his big house and land and moved to a small apartment. He has a super small reloading set up for his consolidated calibers but I can't remember the name brand now. He is VERY happy on what he owns now and it suits him to a T. He reloads/hand loads in his living room now. He had a picture of it on another long gone forum many years ago. He was a very nice man and he was friends with one of my late Colorado friends, another Nam Vet, who was friends with my late husband too. The nice Nam Vet (Army) died within a week or so of my late husband's death who was a Nam Vet (USN) and later on served in the Air NG Fighter Wing and had a non .gov job too.

Cate

 

[SUPER X]

That is what my MT husband always said and still says depending on the person. He 'casts' too.

He had two reloading set ups. He sold one of them years ago. He kept his plain, simple, heavy, FAVORITE RCBS gear and two other reloading things in another brand.

An older single man-older than me, who lives in CO, sold and gifted a bunch of reloading supplies and GEAR. (He has one or two sons.) He sold his big house and land and moved to a small apartment. He has a super small reloading set up for his consolidated calibers but I can't remember the name brand now. He is VERY happy on what he owns now and it suits him to a T. He reloads/hand loads in his living room now. He had a picture of it on another long gone forum many years ago. He was a very nice man and he was friends with one of my late Colorado friends, another Nam Vet, who was friends with my late husband too. The nice Nam Vet (Army) died within a week or so of my late husband's death who was a Nam Vet (USN) and later on served in the Air NG Fighter Wing and had a non .gov job too.

Cate

I have my father's old heavy RCBS USA made set up from the 60s .It will make anything I will ever need as long as I don't want to do it fast.